Using high-end stereo systems from second-hand shops, coloured chains of LED lights, DIY-store water hoses, fragments of film documents and references from popular culture, Haroon Mirza (b. 1977) creates installations which produce musical compositions…

The Walker Art Center presents whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir, a film installation by Eve Sussman | Rufus Corporation, from April 18–July 8, 2012.
This seemingly self-generating sci-fi film never ends, nor does it actually begin. Drawing on more t…

Espai d’art contemporani de Castelló is hosting a project by the American artist Sharon Lockhart (Norwood, Massachusetts, 1964) conceived specifically for the centre and its environs.
The exhibition Double Tide takes as its point of departure the film…

Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) shows three monographic exhibitions on the third floor of the Dortmunder U. Curated by Dr. Inke Arns.
Two of these exhibitions are concerned with similar issues: HEXEN 2.0 by the British artist Suzanne Treister and H…

For the very first time, CIFO Europa, a branch to the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation based in Miami, is exhibiting a selection of contemporary artworks from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana, Cuba…

From April 30 to May 6, 2012, the Austrian Cultural Forum New York is pleased to host a group show titled The Locus of Control. The exhibition was curated by Patrick Gibson, in association with On Stellar Rays, and will feature works by artists Zipora …

16 cultural organizations to present 23 exciting exhibitions and programs across the Bay Area, featuring over 80 artists.

The Asian Contemporary Arts Consortium San Francisco (ACAC-SF) is pleased to present the inaugural Asian Contemporary Art Week Sa…

Superpower: Africa in Science Fiction surveys the recent tendency for artists and filmmakers to apply the forms and concerns of science fiction to narratives situated in the African continent. It considers the complex undercurrents for this occurrence …

Painting and Jugs is comprised of large-scale paintings and handmade ceramics, combining two adaptations of traditional media. The exhibition addresses form and content while underscoring an affinity for collaborative production, a mode at the core of …

Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the release of the twenty-fifth issue of Prefix Photo magazine. Editor Scott McLeod has assembled an array of writers and artists, all of whom engage with the subjects of land and sea in their…

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Photographer Matt Giel challenges the four edges of the mounted photograph, as he wonders about how to express the limitless. Giel, who was in a two-artist show at Grizzly Grizzly this year, mixes traditional forms like landscape and portrait with processes that verge on performances and products that verge on sculptures. He graduated from University [...]

Brian Spies’ installation piece “Can’t Find My Way Home,” on display through May 31 at The Hex Factory in Fishtown, is a full-throated artistic roar against the insanity of “hydro-fracking,” the groundwater-polluting, ecosystem-destroying domestic oil-drilling technology currently in use in Pennsylvania and across the country. The exhibition combines Spies’ black-and-white photography of Dimock, PA, described [...]

Martha Wilson Sourcebook; 40 years of reconsidering performance, feminism, alternative spaces, Martha Wilson, ed. (Independent Curators Inc., 2011) ISBN 978-0-916365-85-1 Martha Wilson’s sourcebook is filled primarily with the writing of others, through which Wilson traces important influences on her life and art, and documents the New York alternative art scene since the 1970s. She has [...]

Recession-proof Union Square is finally looking a little frayed around the edges. On this visit we saw a number of closed storefronts where there had been businesses before. We also saw scrappy young galleries closer in to the center of things, which says to me that rents are down. But the place is still glorious–and [...]

News Through the Heritage Philadelphia Program (HPP), the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage has awarded $766,325 to six local organizations, including two first-time grantees; the winners include the Preservation Alliance of Greater Philadelphia, for their effort to revitalize the John Coltrane House in North Philadelphia, and the Mural Arts Program, for Structure and Surface, a community-based public art initiative about the history [...]

An attempt to selflessly eradicate one’s individual identity

Teaching with and sharing Robert Adams’ photography with students can allow for a broader understanding of what makes a great picture.

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